Hyuk is teh beast! Vladi's having a really hard time :/

7th game!

Brilliant match, great to see these 2 in a final. Samsonov is supreme against defenders. Joo is an amazing player.

Korea Open 2010 - Timo Boll vs SALIFOU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuuQFQo37Y

DaHobbit wrote: Hyuk is teh beast! Vladi's having a really hard time :/

Hi there,

Just for the record, Se Hyuk is his first name (consdered by Koreans to be one single entity, not first name + middle name of sort. So it is improper to call him Se or Hyuk) and Ju is his last name.   Koreans put their last name before the first name .... i mean it to be a joke of course ...  Ju (Kim, Lee, Park, Choi, etc mostly single syllable) is the family name (equivalent of our "last name") is called first before his personal name ( // our "first name") in the Korean order.  In the process of "westernization" over the past century, Koreans finally learned to put their first names first .... again this is a joke folks ... thus Sehyuk Ju or Se Hyuk Ju (because in Korean writing, Se and Hyuk form separate "characters").

But nowadays a trend is set to call a person the way he or she is called in his or her native way  Thus Ju Se Hyuk  Lee Myung Bak (S. Korean president) Ban Ki-Moon (current UN Secretary)  etc.  Kim Yuna (yun-ah) the Oympic figure skating queen, was long recognized as Yuna Kim, Yun-A Kim, etc.  BTW, Koreans are not used to be refered to by their last name only  "Kim says ....",  "Lee went..". these definately sound weird to a native Korean ear. Either first name ("Se Hyuk played brilliantly.") or full name ("Ju Se Hyuk is an excellent defense player") sound proper. 

No offense to the person quoted.... just to help at least some of you to understand how it works.

popperlocker wrote: timo played so bad, it was almost like someone payed him to lose. do people bet on ping pong?

betting...  i'm sure they do, cuz gambling on sports is legal in most countries.

as for boll, judging by his facial expression, he looked flat to me, like he wasn't really ready to play today.

he's had a long break--maybe that's what did him in.

also, he seemed to have a problem with joo's pips.  i wonder if joo has changed the pips since the last time they played.

anyhow, i honestly think that boll is waaaay overranked at no. 2 in the world!!  i think anybody in the top-10 can beat him.

Incredible match! I'm sad for Joo but I must say that Samsonov was playing really well today. Actually both played well but Samsonov had a little something extra that brought him the first place. Though Joo had home fan support but Samsonov was really consistent today plus his touch is really good. So congratulations to Samsonov ! Good luck for Joo next time.

takaaki wrote: popperlocker wrote: timo played so bad, it was almost like someone payed him to lose. do people bet on ping pong? betting...  i'm sure they do, cuz gambling on sports is legal in most countries. as for boll, judging by his facial expression, he looked flat to me, like he wasn't really ready to play today. he's had a long break--maybe that's what did him in. also, he seemed to have a problem with joo's pips.  i wonder if joo has changed the pips since the last time they played. anyhow, i honestly think that boll is waaaay overranked at no. 2 in the world!!  i think anybody in the top-10 can beat him.

I think he's still playing with Tibhar Grass Dtecs based on his picture which was posted on ITTF website

Thank you for all 

i just saw that whole episode in the feng - wang match.

first of all, what exactly did wang do?  unfortunately, the camera crew didn't get back from the slo-mo replay quick enough, so there's no view of the serve.

and to complicate things, it didn't appear that the umpire gave wang an explanation when she asked for one.  now, i know that the player is not really entitled to an explanation, but players are not robots and when you get faulted for something, you wanna know why.

that said, when wang blew up, what she said to that lady was outrageous and totally uncalled for.

the only explanation i can come up with for the lack of negative response from the crowd is that they didn't hear what she said, or if they heard, they didn't understand.

she should have been unceremoniously thrown out of the match and, for that matter, thrown out of the hall for what she said.

the umpire was right to give that game to feng, so it was a shame that she herself was thrown out.  but, if you let wang continue to play, then that was probably necessary to avoid further confrontation.  anyhow, i hope to god they told her that she did the right thing...

also, apparently, that ump gave feng the 1st point in the next game, but the new ump rescinded that order.

i really think the ittf needs to rethink the service rule or at least how they are going to adjudicate it.

i just don't think it's right to fault someone without a warning.  and i think when there is a warning the ump should give an explanation.  perhaps to facilitate the explanation for non-native english speaker umps (which, incidently most are), the ittf should come up with some standardized hand signals, like in other sports, so that non-native english speaking umps don't have to fumble around trying to explain something to a non-native english speaking player.

anyhow, i think what wang did was totally wrong, even if she was justified.  so i hope that the ittf will suspend her from her next event, which would be the china open later on this week, or, at the very least, they should fine her.

Is it just me or did Oh switch to the Maze blade?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaMnnbXYiZQ

Check at 3:44

Come on guys, give us what we've been waiting for

yeah, i think joo needs to start looping more and chopping less and perhaps hitting more with the pips.  cuz whenever he plays those guys that are above him, it looks like 6 games is about as far as he can go physically.

and as far as who to support, though i'm not from either belarus or korea, i really like samsonov, but i also wanted to see a korean win the korean open, so i, too, was torn as to who to support, so i just enjoyed the game for what it was, like you.  though i did think from the beginning that vladi was gonna win, cuz he looked awfully good in the earlier rounds.


Edited by takaaki - 08/15/2010 at 1:23pm

I'm loving the Korean crowd. They're so into it. 

While watching the Qatar Open, for example, I had wondered if any other human beings were present besides the players and umpires.

  short pips in her fh and smooth in her bh same style like wujiaduo,lijiawei